Comparison of techniques of oral hygiene - a multidisciplinary randomised study on training of oral hygiene skills
Organizational Data
- DRKS-ID:
- DRKS00003488
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Date of registration in DRKS:
- 2012-01-20
- Last update in DRKS:
- 2019-08-06
- Registration type:
- Retrospective
Acronym/abbreviation of the study
MHV_I
URL of the study
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Brief summary in lay language
The study is conceptualized as experimental basic research. Participants are students outside dentistry. The study compares the effectiveness of computerpresentations aiming to train different oral hygiene techniques. The study tests the hypothesis that a training on a hygiene technique will improve oral hygiene skills and thereby habitual oral hygiene as well which will result in a reduction of gingivitis. Further the study tests the hypothesis that differing hygiene techniques differ with respect to the extent of oral hygiene skills and habitual hygiene achieved.
Brief summary in scientific language
Analyses the effectiveness of differing computerbased trainings to improve oral hygiene skills
Health condition or problem studied
- ICD10:
- K05.1 - Chronic gingivitis
- Healthy volunteers:
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Interventions, Observational Groups
- Arm 1:
- Basics of oral hygiene: Sties to be cleaned and by which means they can be reached (toooth brush, tooth floss). Pressure which should be applied while brushing and systematics of tooth brushing.
- Arm 2:
- Basics of oral hygiene plus modified Bass techniques
- Arm 3:
- Basics of oral hygiene plus Fones technique
Endpoints
- Primary outcome:
- Gingivitis; 6,12, 28 weeks after intervention; assessed by the papillary bleeding index
- Secondary outcome:
- Oral hygiene skills; 6, 12, 28 weeks after intervention; assessed by plaque accumulation after thorough oral hygiene via marginal plaque index and Turesky modification of the Quigley & Hein Index
Study Design
- Purpose:
- Prevention
- Allocation:
- Randomized controlled study
- Control:
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- Active control (effective treatment of control group)
- Phase:
- N/A
- Study type:
- Interventional
- Mechanism of allocation concealment:
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- Blinding:
- Yes
- Assignment:
- Parallel
- Sequence generation:
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- Who is blinded:
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- Assessor
- Investigator/therapist
- Patient/subject
Recruitment
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
- No Entry
Recruitment Locations
- Recruitment countries:
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- Germany
- Number of study centers:
- Monocenter study
- Recruitment location(s):
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- Other Universität Gießen
Recruitment period and number of participants
- Planned study start date:
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- Actual study start date:
- 2009-11-11
- Planned study completion date:
- No Entry
- Actual Study Completion Date:
- 2010-09-06
- Target Sample Size:
- 66
- Final Sample Size:
- 67
Inclusion Criteria
- Sex:
- All
- Minimum Age:
- 18 Years
- Maximum Age:
- no maximum age
- Additional Inclusion Criteria:
- students; at least 10 sites showing papillary bleeding index > 0
Exclusion Criteria
students of dentistry, smoking, less than 20 teeth
Addresses
Primary Sponsor
- Address:
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie Fachbereich 11 - Medizin Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenProf. Dr. Renate DeinzerFriedrichstr. 3635392 GießenGermany
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
- Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
- Yes
Contact for Scientific Queries
- Address:
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie Fachbereich 11 - Medizin Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenProf. Dr. Renate DeinzerFriedrichstr. 3635392 GießenGermany
- Telephone:
- + 49 641 99 45681
- Fax:
- + 49 641 99 45689
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
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Contact for Public Queries
- Address:
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie Fachbereich 11 - Medizin Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenProf. Dr. Renate DeinzerFriedrichstr. 3635392 GießenGermany
- Telephone:
- + 49 641 99 45681
- Fax:
- +49 641 99 45689
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
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Principal Investigator
- Address:
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie Fachbereich 11 - Medizin Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenProf. Dr. Renate DeinzerFriedrichstr. 3635392 GießenGermany
- Telephone:
- + 49 641 99 45681
- Fax:
- + 49 641 99 45689
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Sources of Monetary or Material Support
Commercial (pharmaceutical industry, medical engineering industry, etc.)
- Address:
- GABA International4106 TherwillSwitzerland
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Institutional budget, no external funding (budget of sponsor/PI)
- Address:
- Institut für Medizinische Psychologie Fachbereich 11 - Medizin Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenFriedrichstr. 3635392 GießenGermany
- Telephone:
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- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
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Ethics Committee
Address Ethics Committee
- Address:
- Ethik-Kommission des Fachbereichs Medizin der Justus-Liebig-Universität GießenFrankfurter Straße 51-5335392 GießenGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-641-9942470
- Fax:
- +49-641-9942479
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Date of ethics committee application:
- 2009-06-25
- Ethics committee number:
- 91/09
- Vote of the Ethics Committee:
- Approved
- Date of the vote:
- 2009-07-16
Further identification numbers
- Other primary registry ID:
- No Entry
- EudraCT Number:
- No Entry
IPD - Individual Participant Data
- Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
- No Entry
- IPD Sharing Plan:
- No Entry
Study protocol and other study documents
- Study protocols:
- No Entry
- Study abstract:
- No Entry
- Other study documents:
- No Entry
- Background literature:
- No Entry
- Related DRKS studies:
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Publication of study results
- Planned publication:
- No Entry
- Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
- Harnacke D, Mitter S, Lehner M, Munzert J, Deinzer R (2012) Improving Oral Hygiene Skills by Computer-Based Training: A Randomized Controlled Comparison of the Modified Bass and the Fones Techniques. PLoS ONE 7(5):e37072. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037072
- Date of first publication of study results:
- No Entry
- DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
- No Entry
Basic reporting
- Basic Reporting / Results tables:
- No Entry
- Brief summary of results:
- No Entry